Plagiarism
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Some cases of plagiarism are reported below.
- Papers with full details on the following cases.
- A first case of plagiarism: Danut Marcu.
- Another case of plagiarism: M. Sreenivas and T. Srinivas.
In November 2007 the following new case was observed.
In august 2009 the following letters were received, apparently disculping Dr. Srinivas
This and related plagiarism cases concerning these authors has been investigated by SIAM
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) in october 2009, culminating in
the following
SIAM report on the investigation of plagiarism by Sreenivas and Srinivas
that confirms our findings.
- A surprising, elaborate cheating scheme is reported in the editorial "A brand new cheating attempt: a case of usurped identity",
published in the December 2016 issue of 4OR.
Banned from publication in 4OR for plagiarism:
- Danut Marcu
- M. Sreenivas
- T. Srinivas
- Ajinkya Tanksale (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
- Jitendra K Jha (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
- Alireza Noruzi (Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran)
- Hasan Jafari (Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran)
- Tohid Banki (Islamic Azad University, Bilesuvar, Moghan, Iran)
- Mohsen Mohammadi (Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran)
- Jinfang LIU
Finance and Economics School of Hunan University of Technology, Zhuzhou, China
- R. Sophia Porchelvi
Department of Mathematics, ADM College for Women (Autonomous), Nagapattinam, Tamilnadu, India.
- K. Sathya
Department of Mathematics, Poompuhar College (Autonomous), Melaiyur, Tamilnadu, India.
- R. Irene Hepzibah
Department of Mathematics, AVC College of Engineering, Mayiladuthurai, Tamilnadu, India.
- Diogo Cunha Ferreira (Universidade de Lisboa)
- Rui Cunha Marques (Universidade de Lisboa)
- Maria Isabel Pedro (Universidade de Lisboa)
- Yan Li (Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China)
- Yangyang Wang (Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China)
- Youxi Wu (Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China)
- Zhendong Wang (Northwest University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China)
- Tianlin Jin (Center of China Urban Economic, Peking University, Beijing)
Banned from publication in 4OR for simultaneous submission:
- Ramin Yarinezhada (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Amirkabir University of Technology,
Tehran, Iran)
- Seyed Naser Hashemia (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Amirkabir University of Technology,
Tehran, Iran)